Numerical Simulations of Combustion Instabilities in a Combustor with an Augmentor-Like Geometry
Abstract
With the goal of assessing the capability of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to simulate combustion instabilities, the present work considers a premixed, bluff-body-stabilized combustor with well-defined inlet and outlet boundary conditions. The present simulations produce flow behaviors in good qualitative agreement with experimental observations. Notably, the flame flapping and standing acoustic waves seen in the experiments are reproduced by the simulations. Moreover, present predictions for the dominant instability frequency have an error of 7% and those of the rmspressure fluctuations show an error of 16%. In addition, an analysis of simulation results for the limit cycle complements previous experimental analyses by supporting the presence of an active frequency-locking mechanism.
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- 1562606
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- FA9101-13-M-0020
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- Aerospace
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- Journal Name: Aerospace Journal Volume: 6 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2226-4310
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- MDPI AG
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Gonzalez-Juez, Esteban. Numerical Simulations of Combustion Instabilities in a Combustor with an Augmentor-Like Geometry. Country unknown/Code not available: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.3390/aerospace6070082.
Gonzalez-Juez, Esteban. Numerical Simulations of Combustion Instabilities in a Combustor with an Augmentor-Like Geometry. Country unknown/Code not available. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace6070082
Gonzalez-Juez, Esteban. Sun .
"Numerical Simulations of Combustion Instabilities in a Combustor with an Augmentor-Like Geometry". Country unknown/Code not available. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace6070082.
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title = {Numerical Simulations of Combustion Instabilities in a Combustor with an Augmentor-Like Geometry},
author = {Gonzalez-Juez, Esteban},
abstractNote = {With the goal of assessing the capability of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to simulate combustion instabilities, the present work considers a premixed, bluff-body-stabilized combustor with well-defined inlet and outlet boundary conditions. The present simulations produce flow behaviors in good qualitative agreement with experimental observations. Notably, the flame flapping and standing acoustic waves seen in the experiments are reproduced by the simulations. Moreover, present predictions for the dominant instability frequency have an error of 7% and those of the rmspressure fluctuations show an error of 16%. In addition, an analysis of simulation results for the limit cycle complements previous experimental analyses by supporting the presence of an active frequency-locking mechanism.},
doi = {10.3390/aerospace6070082},
journal = {Aerospace},
number = 7,
volume = 6,
place = {Country unknown/Code not available},
year = {Sun Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Sun Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
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https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace6070082
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